Time After Time

-Chapter
Nine-

 

 

“Well, lets start from the beginning.” Harry
began. “Salazar Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets. The legend says that
not even the other three Founders knew about it. The fourth Founder sealed the
Chamber so that only his heir could open it when he came to Hogwarts, and
unleash all the horrors that lies within: a basilisk.” Harry stopped and looked
at Severus, who was hanging onto every word he said. “Some ten-twenty years ago
the Chamber was opened by Slytherin’s heir. One girl was killed, and another
boy wrongfully accused for the deed. I am sure you can work out who we’re
talking about here.” Harry said. “Think big.”

 

Severus’
brows where knitted in thought. After a few minutes his eyes widened, and he
looked up at Harry. The other boy was sitting there calmly, just watching him
and waiting patiently.

 

“Hagrid was blamed right?” Harry nodded. “And
the girl who was killed is Moaning Myrtle!” Harry nodded again, the shadows
playing over his face. “But if they’re going into the Chamber they’d need the
heir of Slytherin to open it, and what about that basilisk?”

 

Harry sat
up, his eyes wide. This was one thing that he hadn’t thought about.

 

“Oh, shit!” he jumped up and ran towards the
exit. “Oh, shit! How could I forget that blasted, overgrown worm?!”

 

“And what are you going to do about it?!”
Severus asked, just a few steps behind him. “There isn’t one bloody thing you
can do! In fact, you’d get killed as well!”

 

Harry was
about to answer when they ran right into someone. Everyone ended up on the
floor in a heap of legs, arms and bodies. Not that Severus minded much being
this close to Harry, but he’d rather die than to admit that in public.

 

Harry was
the first who managed to get up, and went off again. However, he didn’t get far
as someone grabbed the back of his robes and held him there. He turned and was
face to face with James, Sirius, Remus, Lily and Peter, Severus was just
getting off the floor.

 

“What?” he growled dangerously.

 

“Hey, chill down Chase,” Sirius said still
not letting go of his robe. “It’s not as though someone’s gonna die if you
don’t get there in time.”

 

“That’s exactly the situation, Black,” Harry
replied. “So, if you’d be kind enough to let me go………?” Sirius let go just of
pure shock. “Thank you.” Harry was off again, Severus following closely.

 

The
Marauders looked at each other, then set off after the two Slytherins. Not even
the most evil Slytherin in the whole school would’ve joked about someone dying.
And Harry was one of the most honest Slytherins they had ever met, and they
suspected that they would never meet another one like that.

 

“Hey! Wait up!” Sirius yelled, but the other
two didn’t slow down. “We’re going to have to take the passage to the left,
straight ahead two passages and down the third on the right side. That way
we’ll come out right in front of th He He quickly said to the other four, and
they nodded. “In here!”

 

Harry
wasn’t surprised to see the Marauder’s come out in front of them, but he kept
on running. He still had two floors to climb, and the moving staircases were
next. Not to mention all the fake steps, and the corridors that changed every
few hours. The Marauder’s decided to interrogate Severus, Harry was glad for
that. He’d have blown off like a bomb, probably blasting Hogwarts to the
seventh hell with all the power that he had.

 

“What the hell did Chase talk about, Snape?”
James asked.

 

“The vampire’s in the Chamber of Secret’s.”
Severus replied. “There’s also a basilisk in there, and this Slayer that
arrived earlier doesn’t know about it. And now Harry thinks he’s going to save
McColgan from the overgrown worm. I am currently trying to get that idea out of
his head.”

 

“You forget one thing Sev.” Harry replied,
looking back at them. “I’m half vampire. That means that I can talk to several
kinds of animals, but mostly dogs, rats, bats, and – not to mention – snakes.”
All the running was taking too much time. Harry couldn’t apparate around
Hogwarts, so he took out his wand, and pointed it over his shoulder. “Accio
Firebolt!”

 

He didn’t
care that the broom still hadn’t come out on the market, and wouldn’t for
another decade, right now he had to get to the Chamber of Secrets. The broom
came to him just as the group came to the moving staircases. Harry jumped on it
and was off before anyone could even blink. The others just stood there and
gaped at his speed until he turned into a corridor. Soon James followed Harry’s
example, shortly followed by the others. Lily mounted up behind him, and they
where off.

 

“Do you know where he’s going?” James asked
Snape as they flew upwards.

 

“Moaning Myrtle.” Was the reply.

 

“The ruined girls toilet on the second
floor.” Lily said quickly, and had to grab James around the torso not to fall
off. “Out of the way!” she yelled to a couple of terrified first years.

 

They
rounded a swing and spotted Harry up ahead. He was a few yards away from the
entrance to the toilet, and was getting closer for every second that passed.
Professor Zamfir – the Astronomy teacher – was almost run down and demanded to
know what the hell was going on around here. Harry yelled ‘sorry’ over his
shoulder. He took out his wand to blast the doors to the toilet open, when
something from inside blasted them outwards. There was no time for him to put
up a shield or fly out of the way. Harry was thrown off his broom, and then he
was flung over the railing. Severus could only watch in horror as all this
happened, and could only prey to all the gods that where willing to listen to
him, that Harry was alright.

 

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